The Front Row

Some of you know, I run awfulannouncing.com and we spitball all things sports media.

Have to say, this run of Dan Dakich has made me a fAn. I know some here aren't fans, but he cracks me up and I generally agree with his strong opinions.

I don't think that many announcers actually make me laugh but a couple of times Dakich had me and I thought he had great chemistry with Tirico who is a real pro at play by play.

Tirico plays it straight and Dakich just comes in bumbling with some nugget of humor or analysis and Tirico usually enjoys the ying yang in how they approach their jobs.

You can really tell how much of a pro Tirico is as he was all over anything that came up during the blowout. He knew Ravenel's points had gone down in Big Ten play, that Ross tweeted about lack of PT, and a lot of other under the radar story-lines that are often missed by national play by play guys.

I was impressed and have to say college basketball is probably the thing ESPN does best.

Best part was when Tirico mentioned Illinois's point guard had transferred in because of his graduate program and Dakich just totally blew up that angle by basically saying he purposely found a graduate program that Illinois offered that his school didn't so he could transfer and get away from a new coach.